Zhao Xinyu was most worried that after Kanem, Yang Deshan would make a stumbling block, and Wang Jianzhong and Li Qixi, two people with Shen Ji's backing, would also resist him, but after contact today, his heart was half relaxed.

However, he was more or less unwilling in his heart.

If everything goes according to the existing framework and is not changed, then no matter how good the business development of the West African branch is in the future, it is also the credit of Shen Ji and Yang Deshan, and some people even think that he picked Yang Deshan's fruit, right?

Thinking of this, Zhao Xinyu was also quite depressed.

There is Shen Ji in charge of the overseas department, Zhao Xinyu can see the situation clearly and not make trouble for them, Cao Mo is currently thinking that everyone is cooperating well to push all the work forward, which is the most important thing, where will Zhao Xinyu care what is going on in his heart?

During the meal, Cao Mo specially invited several Chinese businessmen who are currently living directly in the park.

At this time, Yang Deshan also directly announced that the industrial park will receive a capital increase of 5 million US dollars from Tianyue International in the future.

In the early stage, the Conero Lake Industrial Park has only invested $6 million in the early stage of all the capital injections and the proceeds from the sale of industrial land, and there are too many areas that really need to be improved.

In addition to the unstable power supply of single-circuit circuits, the insufficient supply pressure of gas stations and water plants, the hasty construction of gravel roads, the soft roadbed, and the lack of logistics facilities, etc., what makes people feel more intuitive and the most headache is that the living facilities are too poor.

At present, two staff dormitory buildings have been built in the living area, which are used by more than 120 people in the management of Conero Cement Plant, dispatched employees of various settled enterprises, investors and their families.

Except for a simple collective canteen and a small supermarket where you can only buy daily necessities, there are no other supporting living facilities in the living area.

Now even if it is a remote mountain village in China, there must be two billiard tables at the entrance of the village, right?

At present, the living quarters are under construction and are expected to be built, and only more staff dormitory buildings are built.

The construction of the new market needs too much money, and the three melons and two dates are simply not enough, and it can only stay on the planning drawings at present.

The discussion went on and on, and the result was that five million dollars was not enough at all, and the most urgent solution could only be picked first, and in comparison, Taihua invested a lot on the south shore of Lake Conero.

The direct infrastructure investment in the Taihua Industrial Park is not particularly high, at 20 million US dollars, but in addition to the investment of the oil refinery and the Port of Conero adding up to more than 80 million US dollars, the Lu family will also directly build a comprehensive manor hotel in the living supporting area of the Taihua Industrial Park, with an investment of up to 30 million US dollars in the first phase, and then a series of high-end living facilities such as eating, drinking and playing will be directly supported in the manor hotel.

Cao Mo is starting to build the Lakeside House Hotel at the mouth of the Lujiao River, using 20 acres of land in the first phase, planning to build 30 wooden houses, with a total investment of only one million US dollars.

Xu Xin has just arrived in Kanem, and then he will have further contact with Wang Jianzhong, Li Qixi, Wang Wen, Feng Rui and others, and also have an in-depth understanding of the crushing plant, plantation and aluminum profile distribution network, but from now on, this matter will not be Cao Mo and Yang Deshan's turn to ask.

After the exchange on the follow-up construction of the Conero Lake Industrial Park, Wang Wen, Feng Rui and others accompanied Xu Xin and Guo Jian to the staff dormitory building for a simple night, and Xie Sipeng and they also left first, while Zhao Xinyu left Zhao Ling, the financial director, Li Qixi, and Wang Jianzhong, and then they had to talk to Cao Mo, Abacha and Yang Deshan about Conero Energy.

Although Hexi Fund promises not to directly interfere in the operation of Conero Energy, the specific operation should be directly to the restructured board of directors

Charge.

According to the agreed conditions, the current transmission and distribution facilities from the hydropower plant cluster to the Lake Conero Industrial Park and the future power grid construction rights in the Ronxi area will be divested, as well as the natural gas mines in the northern part of Lunta.

The assets of these two pieces are not large, and the transmission and distribution prices and gas prices of the upstream and downstream of Conero Energy are very low, and the divestment is mainly due to the fact that after the final control of Conero Energy falls into the hands of Dongsheng, Cao Mo cannot completely have no means of countermeasures, but he does not expect much profit.

Cao Mo will set up Tianyue Energy Co., Ltd., put these two assets into it, and only agree that Hexi Fund will take away the 15% stake actually held by Shen Ji for $1.5 million - the transaction is also completed in the name of Tianyue International - Cao Mo and others will remain unchanged in Tianyue Energy's shares, and they will also be placed under the unified management of Conero Energy for the time being.

The focus of this year's work is mainly on the expansion of hydropower stations mainly based on the Yeyang Gorge medium-sized hydropower station and the upgrading of the Longta natural gas power plant, as long as these works are completed, the installed capacity of Conero Energy will reach 100,000 kilowatts, and the annual power generation scale will reach 800 million kWh.

In terms of installed capacity, Conero Energy is already a large-scale power generation company in Kanem, but the biggest drawback is that the end-user market is mainly monopolized in the hands of the downstream Draculamo Power Supply Group.

The power supply agreement they signed is calculated in the local currency naira, once the economic and political situation in Kanem is unstable, resulting in a sharp depreciation of the naira, Draculamo, which monopolizes the downstream user market, can offset the loss by raising the price of mains electricity, but whether they will take the initiative to increase the price of upstream power purchase, that is really a toe can understand.

Although Cao Mo signed a VAM agreement with Hexi Fund, the performance commitment adheres to the calculation of the local currency naira, avoiding the possible trap of currency depreciation, but Cao Mo has always been one of the major shareholders of Conero Energy, and it cannot be said that the completion of the apparent VAM agreement has nothing to do with him.

Promoting the development of industrial parks and expanding electricity demand, as well as Conero Energy's own improvement of operation management and reduction of operating costs, will continue to be their top priorities in the next step.

Only by doing these two things, Conero Energy can be regarded as invincible, and there is no need to worry about being too restrained by the downstream.

After March, with the further release of Kanem's domestic cement production capacity, the price of finished cement even fell directly below the level of the early stage of the cement storm, sliding to $170 per ton, and the profits of several cement factories around Draculamo have been squeezed to the ground.

However, the technical transformation of the old Ibogu cement plant has been completed, and the first phase of the Conero cement plant has directly adopted advanced technology, and the management of the operation and technical team has been continuously strengthened, with stable production and a significant increase in yield, and the production and operating costs of each ton of finished cement have dropped to less than 80 US dollars.

Compared with domestic cement manufacturers, there is still a great improvement, but it is currently the lowest production cost in West Africa.

Therefore, Cao Mo can continue to maintain unimaginably high profits in cement production.

Cao Mo's current thinking is also very clear, Kanem's domestic forces do not have specific production capacity of products, such as motorcycles and many mechanical and electrical products, they directly compete with large and small importers, and there is no problem in fighting for the market, but in the fields directly involved in Kanem's domestic forces, they still have to avoid direct competition, and their work should focus on reducing costs and improving efficiency internally.

Zhao Xinyu recognized Cao Mo's thinking.

Of course, there is a more critical reason for this, that is, Zhao Xinyu has just arrived in Kanem, and he hopes that many projects can maintain the status quo for the time being, so as not to be led by Cao Mo and Yang Deshan when he has not yet figured out what the situation is.

After talking about things, Cao Mo just

Abacha leaves the park with him.

After all, Guo Donghu was recruited as an executive, and it can't be said that he was directly thrown into the simple collective dormitory in the park on the first day, so Cao Mo naturally took him back to Ibogu with him.

On the way, Cao Mo told Abacha that he might suspend the construction of the third phase of the Conero cement plant and invest in a cement plant in Benin first.

Abacha now has no doubts about any of Cao Mo's decisions, and in addition to supporting, he also makes better suggestions for the time being.

After arriving at the fork in the road in front of the Ibogu tribe, Abacha changed cars and returned to the Sika family's manor, and Cao Mo and Guo Donghu took a car to the north.

Almost participating in today's meeting and conversation, Guo Donghu sorted out an outline of what Cao Mo had done in Kanem in the past two years, and couldn't help but sigh in the car: "Mr. Cao is so low-key, outsiders will never imagine that Mr. Cao has run such a large-scale industry in Longta in just two or three years." The last time I went to Draculamo, I had some contact with Chinese businessmen here in China, and they all said that you have such a big temper, and they all rely on the power of Felician and the Sika family, and they probably don't want to believe that Mr. Cao is so young, but he is far better than them, right?"

Hearing that Guo Donghu's name for himself had changed, Cao Mo just smiled and said that there was no need to be so serious:

"You've been to Draculamo before, but it's been for a short time, and if you know the country well enough, you know that any level of low-key is necessary. Besides, what is my little asset? Just now during the meal discussing the development of the industrial park, you can also see that I can't actually come out with too much cash, and many things can only be taken one step at a time......"

Cao Mo asked Guo Donghu about his visit to the cocoa processing factory in the afternoon, and said: "There is a big problem for the Chinese businessmen who enter Kanem, that is, they want to make other people's money, but they also look down on other people in their hearts - if you have such a mentality, I can't hand over the business of Conero Foods in Africa to you to manage, and it is difficult for you to solve the problem fundamentally." ”

"How did you solve these problems?" asked Guo Donghu.

"The frequency of Kaneem's homicides is much higher than in China, but in the large population, there are still very few vicious people - take Longta as an example, we have to guard against the one or two hundred extremely vicious people, rather than the 500,000 people in Longta as the most vicious criminals," Cao Mo said, "The reverse is also true, the education level of the entire Kanem is very backward than that of China, and a qualified manager may not be able to pick out a qualified manager out of a hundred people, but what about one in a thousand?" With a population of 500,000 in Longta, it shouldn't be unimaginable to choose 500 from among them that are worth cultivating, right?"

Before gold mining, the construction of cement plants and hydropower station groups, the operation and management team he used local people as much as possible, and at this stage, in addition to Conero Energy will inevitably hire some personnel from the domestic high salary to strengthen management, even if Cao Mo is now intercepting Yang Deshan to do it, Zhao Xinyu on behalf of Dongsheng will also put forward opinions, and Conero Food's business on both sides of the business to be integrated, Zhongyue Trade's entrepreneurial management team is Xu Bin, Zhou Jianming and others want to hire a large number of employees in Kanem, which will involve the most critical issue of harmonious coexistence between Chinese and Qatari employees.

Cao Mo knew very well where the root cause of his ability to do better than Yang Deshan and Xie Sipeng in Kanem was, so he naturally had to give Guo Donghu and Zhou Jianming vaccinations now.

Guo Donghu is actually sleek enough, and he can also talk to Yoruba girls, and he doesn't seem particularly picky, while the future business focus of Conero Foods is still in China, and the problem will not be very big, Cao Mo is more worried about Xu Bin, Zhou Jianming, Xu Lizheng and Xiao Jun How they will lead and manage hundreds of local employees in Kanem.